Tuesday, June 12, 2018

This past weekend I sold one of my Moths that needed a full rehab and I hadn't gotten around to doing that. The buyer had owned a boat just like the one I had so I sold him back his childhood. He left a happy man. While I was waiting for him to arrive I took one last detailed look at the old dear and rediscovered a small decal just forward of the cockpit:

"WATERPROOF WELDWOOD". Weldwood was an early trade name of the United States Plywood Corporation for it's marine grade plywood. How that decal has survived almost 70 years of sanding, re-varnishing and benign neglect is mind boggling. But never the less, there it is. A tiny bit of the forgotten history of waterproof plywood. This boat was proudly built from a quality material and its manufacturer clearly wanted people to know.

About Me

I'm a 60-something year old goat (who's counting? I don't look a day over 70) who enjoys racing Classic and Vintage Moth Boats (a small development class of sailing dinghy), putzing with little British cars, riding bikes (both motor and pedal),figure skating and an occasional bimble.